Contribution custom fields missing from Membership add/renew forms

[adixon]

When renew or create a membership using the adminstration/backend form, the contribution fields that get shown don't include the custom fields I have added to my contributions. Is that a known bug, or an intended feature?

Anyone have an idea where/how to fix it?

I think it might be buried in: CRM/Member/Form/Membership.php and CRM/Member/Form/MembershipRenewal.php

[CiviTeacher.com]

The 'back end' contribution form is hard coded list of fields (not a profile) and to my knowledge has never included custom fields associated with contributions.

As a workaround organizations I work with use batch entry for memberships and contributions which can have custom fields as part of a profile.

Otherwise you could customize the code but I'm not sure of the files, sorry.

[adixon]

Batch entry sounds promising - but would that allow the contribution to update the membership, or would those two bits have to be done separately?

[CiviTeacher.com]

I think so.  Why not give it a try and find out?   

[joanne]

@adixon

How did you go with this?

Do the membership and  contribution need ot be done separately?

I want to include the BSB for cheques so that we can produce bank deposit listing through CiviCRM

[adixon]

I haven't made any progress on this issue.

[joanne]

I have tried using membership batch entry to do this and it doesn't work.

Although some of the fields in the reserved profile are obviously contribution fields (payment instrument, receive date etc) they are classified as membership fields on this profile.

If I try to add any other contribution fields I get an error message on saving about not being able to include non-membership fields.  This applies both to core contribution fields ( eg cheque number which in not included in the reserved profile in 4.4.6 but is on both the demo and sandbox sites) and custom contribution fields.

I was able to include the cheque number field in the profile by inserting it directly into the DB and specifying it as a "membership" field just as had been done for the other core contribution fields in the profile.

However, that doesn't  work for custom contribution fields.

For now we are stuck with processing the membership and then editing the contribution to include the cheque drawer and BSB number.

[petednz]

joanne - give us a call to show you something we built for another client that is a drupal form that allows a whole bunch of things for multiple users to be done at once. it won't fit the bill exactly but good that you know something like it can be done in case it is worth looking at what it would take to tune to your requirements.